[A human Being]

Jon Bernie on the path of the heart:


'It's so much easier to follow the path of the heart than to try to follow the path of the knowing mind. Through the doorway of the personal heart, you can enter what I call the Heart of Vastness, or the Big Heart of infinite connection.'


'Right now, tune into your heart - is it at peace, or is it in some healing process? Are expansion and opening happening, or do you feel contraction and holding on?'


'The path of the heart is to learn to listen, rather than talk; to allow, rather than dominate; and to really take in the many, many communications from all directions that are guiding your attention, helping show you the way to return home.'


'Even in those inevitable times when you're quite out of balance, it's helpful to allow yourself to feel the imbalance, the disconnectedness, the off-centeredness. Gradually you'll learn to allow your experience to be exactly as it is, rather than trying to avoid it, or fix it, or even understand it.'


'Spirituality does not mean leaving your humanity behind. Rather, the height of spirituality is the complete embrace of every aspect of your humanity; many people believe being "spiritual" means transcending our humanity, somehow escaping our flawed and messy human experience, but true spirituality is the opposite of that.'